How to Import BTC from Keplr Wallet to MEW Mobile

MEW Mobile now supports BTC!

Founded in 2015, MyEtherWallet (MEW) started as a simple web interface for Ethereum. It has since evolved into a comprehensive suite of products supporting many blockchain networks. Over the years, we've navigated bear markets and created user-friendly mobile and browser wallets for both beginners and experts. Now, MEW Mobile also lets you manage your BTC.

Use this guide to help import Bitcoin from your Keplr wallet into MEW Mobile, where you can hold it, swap it to ETH, stablecoins, or any other token, and put it to work earning you some crypto instead of just sitting there!

Before you can explore Bitcoin on MEW, you’ll need your Keplr wallet phrase.

Open up your Keplr Wallet. Unlock your wallet then click on the wallet dropdown at the top of the app.

Click the 3 dots that are on the right side of the wallet you want to import into the MEW Mobile app. For example, we are importing ‘Main Multi Wallet’.

Note: Only BTC from this wallet will be available in MEW at this time. MEW Mobile is only importing the key to the BTC account(s) you will select, protected under multiple layers of cryptographic and biometric security. MEW is NOT importing or saving your entire Keplr wallet phrase. Your Keplr wallet phrase and your existing MEW Mobile phrases are separate, and you should continue to keep them both secure.

Select the ‘View Recovery Phrase’ option.

After you enter your password and click confirm, your secret phrase will appear for anyone to see! Make sure you're alone and that no one can see your phone screen.

Once your secret phrase is displayed on screen, you should write it down on a piece of paper rather than making a screenshot. Screenshots live on your phone and are vulnerable to being hacked, so to be safe you never want to screenshot your secret phrase.

Got your secret phrase safely written down? Now head back to MEW!

Back on the MEW Mobile app, you'll see these new options when you click on ‘Explore Bitcoin on MEW’ from the wallet home screen or switch to the Bitcoin network in the top left corner. Select ‘Move your Bitcoin to MEW’.

You can import your Keplr BTC account to MEW or you can send BTC from your Keplr wallet to your MEW Mobile wallet. Select ‘Import my BTC wallet’ to manage your BTC directly in MEW. 

(Click ‘Send BTC to myself’ to copy your MEW BTC address and then paste it into your Keplr wallet to send BTC.)

Select ‘Import using a Secret Recovery Phrase’.

Mark all the checkboxes after reading them carefully, then click ‘Continue’.

Enter your recovery phrase then click ‘Import’ at the top right.

Select the accounts you want to import then click ‘Finish Importing’.

Your Bitcoin wallet will start being imported into MEW Wallet. This process should take about a minute.

Once your Bitcoin wallet is done importing, click ‘Continue’.

You should now be able to see your Bitcoin wallet in your MEW Mobile app! You can swap your BTC to ETH and stake it, or swap to any other token on different EVM networks and use those tokens in various DeFi protocols.

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